Concurrent Sessions
Please note that in the schedule of Concurrent Sessions, the identified is that of the person who submitted the abstract, and may not necessarily represent co-presenters.
Concurrent Session I
Monday, October 27, 2008
2:15 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.
Session 1a
Poverty/Health Inequalities
Influence of maternal birthplace on postpartum health and health service use
This study examined differences in health status, probable postpartum depression, perceptions of health services, unmet service needs, and barriers to care among postpartum women born in and outside of Canada.
Rebecca L Ganann
McMaster University
Maternal obesity among Canadian women: Effects on breastfeeding outcome
Lower rates of breastfeeding initiation and intention were found in obese women compared to normal weight women in Ontario.
Joyce Cheng, Barbara Chapman, Sharon Dore, Sarah McDonald
McMaster University
Session 1b
Community Capacity
Exploring the use of school absenteeism data for the early detection influenza outbreaks in the community
In 2005, York Region Health Services partnered with a local school board to pilot a sentinel school surveillance program. This program collected and regularly monitored data on student absenteeism due to illness to identify trends or clusters of illness within school communities.
Denis Heng, Jason Garay, Ruth Diaz-Chambers
York Region Health Services
An overview of three comprehensive school based Sexuality Education Resource Manuals (Grades 4 through 10)
Three sexuality resources, spanning Grades 4 through 10, will be presented. The emphasis of these guides is youth learning and engagement.
Alice-Simone Balter, Tara Johnson
Peel Health
Safe physical activity: Where we live, learn, and play
Integrating injury prevention with healthy lifestyles messaging to promote safe physical activity among priority populations.
Christina Bradley
Niagara Region Public Health
Session 1c
Accountability/Governance/Performance management
Pilot of a strategic level Balanced Scorecard
Presenters describe the process of obtaining support, developing the scope, objectives and indicators, and results of a Balanced Scorecard pilot.
Kathleen Dooling, Deborah Hardwick
Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit
Development of a Health Assessment Tool: An innovative
approach to health promotion through collaboration between
public health and urban planning
Development of a unique Health Assessment Tool to systematically identify the public health impacts of built environments.
Gayle Bursey, David Mowat, Bhavna Sivanand
Peel Health
Rural health: A qualitative research approach to understanding
best practices for rural health service delivery in a public health setting
Report provided an overview of leadership, challenges, models, best practices, expertise and recommendations for working effectively in a rural area.
Deanna E Morris
Haldimand-Norfolk Health Unit
Session 1d
Youth Engagement
Building a State Wide Mass Movement: Mass Youth Against Tobacco
of Massachusetts
Mass Youth Against Tobacco (MYAT), a project funded by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and managed by The Medical Foundation, is creating a state wide mass youth movement that advocates for tobacco control and prevention.
Laurie Jo Wallace, Yoojin Lee, Brittany Chen
The Medical Foundation
Hamilton Public Health Services Hamilton Crew for Action Against Tobacco:
peer leader Tool Kit
The Tool Kit includes information, strategies, and ideas for initiating and leading community-based tobacco control activities, as well as tools for measuring positive youth outcomes. The Peer Leader Tool Kit is divided into three sections: Activities, Facilitation, and Self Evaluation.
Karol De Stefano
Public Health Services, City of Hamilton
What’s With Weed: A local and provincial partnership to engage youth on a challenging topic
A peer-led program to reduce problematic marijuana use in secondary schools.
Andrea Smith, Garth McCurdy, Jeannie Larocque and Victor Bibby (Niagara youth)
Niagara Drug Awareness Committee
Session 1e
Poverty/Health Inequalities
Hamilton Public Health Services Cessation Strategy: Cessation Clinic and community partnerships
Hamilton Public Health Services’ cessation strategy involved the development of a quit smoking clinic and increasing community capacity for cessation.
Jennifer Mitton, Urmila Chandran
Public Health Services, City of Hamilton
Peel Works Needle Exchange program: A model for success in addressing HIV/AIDS and Hep C in injection drug users in Peel Region
Overview of a comprehensive program for injection drug users living with or at-risk of contracting HIV/AIDS and other blood borne infections.
Danny Bilan, Clare Hay
Peel Health
Peel Public Health, the police and women in the sex trade: A unique and innovative partnership in Peel Region
An overview of the development, implementation and barriers to success for Project AVERT.
Rhonda Collis
Peel Health
Session 1f
Community Capacity
Think and Drive: A community approach to road safety in Niagara
Think and Drive is a road safety social marketing campaign in which the community capacity building approach has proven to be a key strength. Many community partners are working together to support, implement and promote Think and Drive as a result of a strategic partnership development process that will be outlined in this presentation.
Linda M Beyer,
Niagara Region Public Health
A call to action: Healthy weights and healthy lives in Timiskaming
Model to help health units integrate Board of Health Outcomes with Societal Outcomes in the new Ontario Public Health Standards.
Amanda L Mongeon
Timiskaming Health Unit
School Travel Planning
STP includes assessing, surveying, community engagement, action planning, policy implementation, and evaluation to increase active travel to school.
Mandy Johnson, Jacky Kennedy, Colleen Cooper, Stephanie Hahn
Active by Nature
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Concurrent Session II
Monday, October 27, 2008
3:45 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.
Session 2a
Youth Engagement
Youth engagement panel - Children’s rights in action – Empowering youth through community collaboration and partnerships
The unique Niagara Children’s Charter written by Niagara youth and endorsed by the community will frame this panel presentation of youth in action. The youth panel members have been engaged in planning and participating in local programs that have been extremely successful and relevant to their peers. Highlighted initiatives include Teen Esteem-a mentoring program, raising awareness about tobacco issues and the environment (REACT-Resist Expose And Challenge Tobacco), and engaging Mayor Youth Advisory Councils and Student Councils in a Young Leaders Symposium.
Student Panel Members-TBA
Judy Reid,
Business Education Council of Niagara
David Lorenzo,
Niagara Region Public Health
Session 2b
Poverty/Health inequalities
Reducing health inequalities in school communities
This presentation introduces the audience to concepts of equity, health disparities, social capital, economic benefits of reducing health disparities, and best practices as recognized by WHO, Public Health Agency of Canada, and Toronto Public Health.
Grace Dygas,
Toronto Public Health
What we know and what we still need to know about health disparities
This presentation summarizes what we know and what we still need to know about health disparities and the socio-economic determinants of health based on information from CPHI and other relevant research. In addition information is shared about work from many of the Canadian organizations addressing health disparity issues.
Lisa M Sullivan, Keith Denny
Canadian Institute for Health Information
Reducing gaps in health: A focus on socio-economic status in urban Canada
Pan-Canadian hospitalization rates across 15 Census Metropolitan Areas were found to decrease as one moves up in socio-economic status. This research provides a broad overview of the links between SES and health in urban Canada by examining how hospitalization rates vary within and across areas with different socio-economic characteristics.
Marc Turcotte, Canadian Institute for Health Information
Session 2c
Youth Engagement
RU Aware?: An innovative HIV/AIDS educational conference for youth
This HIV/AIDS awareness conference reaches youth by providing interactive education and edutainment around sexuality. Facilitators work to increase knowledge, skills and encourage youth advocacy.
Alice-Simone Balter, Domenic Storti
Peel Health
Chlamydia communication campaign: He left more than his number/She left more than her number
This presentation describes a Chlamydia public awareness campaign developed in partnership with the Advertising Program at Loyalist College.
Elizabeth Michael, Bill Sherlock, Beth Shaw
Hastings & Prince Edward Counties Health Unit
Gonorrhoea – hard to spell, easy to catch: The exploration of launching a sexual health campaign for youth aged 15-18 in Peel Region
This presentation will discuss the development and implementation of a multi-faceted sexual health social marketing campaign aimed at youth aged 15-18.
Domenic Storti, Alice-Simone Balter
Peel Health
Session 2d
Accountability/Governance/Performance management
Accreditation: In support of PH quality and performance management
To provide participants with an overview of enhancements to the accreditation standards and process in support of quality and performance management.
Meighan Finlay
Ontario Council on Community Health Accreditation
High-risk drinking, unhealthy eating, physical inactivity & tobacco use: Learning about generic policy opportunities & challenges across risk factors
Applying the common learning from single and multiple-risk factor approaches to chronic disease can inform public policy and prevention practice.
Marianne Kobus-Matthews, Shawna Scale
Ontario Chronic Disease Prevention Alliance and Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
The Workplace Wellness Champion Award program: A well-regarded intervention
The workplace wellness recognition award programs at the Sudbury & District Health Unit acknowledge workplaces committed to workplace health.
Tim Dube
Sudbury & District Health Unit
Session 2e
Community Capacity
Sharing responsibility for our children: How one community is making their vision for children a reality
This presentation will highlight the work of Halton’s Our Kids Network in terms of identifying need and working collaboratively.
Philippa Holowaty, Joyce See, Mary Beth Jonz
Halton Region Health Department
Building community capacity through breastfeeding research
Local breastfeeding data strengthens community capacity by informing practice and enhancing the importance of collaboration between public health and hospital systems. Effective, integrated strategies were implemented to support, promote and protect breastfeeding best practice.
Dr. Lynn Rempel, Dr. Lynn McCleary
Brock University
Cathy Lowes, Kathy Bell
Niagara Region Public Health
Donna Rothwell
Niagara Health System
Growing the 18 Month Well-Baby Strategy in Niagara
Description of a pilot project designed to enhance the implementation of the 18 Month Well-Baby Visit Strategy in Niagara.
Fiona Burgi
Niagara Region Pubic Health
Session 2f
Poverty/Health inequalities
Promoting screening in Chinese communities in Ontario
A provincial strategy to provide Public Health Units with targeted materials to reduce health inequities in cancer screening participation.
Lorna Dobi, Susan Larsh
Cancer Care Ontario
Improving access to recreation: A collaborative approach
Access to recreation policy at the local, provincial and federal levels will be reviewed in the context of a provincial work group action plan.
Larry Stinson, Howie Dayton
Peterborough County-City Health Unit
Improving health by improving health literacy
48% of Canadian adults have low literacy; 60% have low health literacy. Using clear language can help people use health information.
Sandra Romagnoli
Niagara Region Public Health
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Concurrent Session III
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Session 3a
Accountability/Governance/Performance management
Concurrent Keynotes: Governance Challenges
A look at challenges under the new Ontario Public Health Standards, as well as key governance challenges for 2009 and beyond.
Graham Scott
President, Graham Scott Strategies Inc.
Additional speakers TBD
Session 3b
Accountability/Governance/Performance management
Concurrent Keynotes: Performance Management Framework: A Starting Place
Session will outline the current work of the provincial Performance Management Working Group, in particular the work to date on a Public Health System Public Report, which is targeted for release in March 2009.
Monika Turner
Director, Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
Sylvia Shedden
Manager, Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
Session 3c
Youth Engagement
40 developmental assets
The 40 developmental assets are concrete, common sense positive experiences and qualities that are essential to raising successful young people.
Donna Markarian-Basler, Amanda Allison
Niagara Region Public Health
40 assets in action
An interactive conversation based on the opportunities community organizations have to create environments in which individuals can learn and grow in the context of community. The 40 developmental assets will be explored in relation to the Belong, Believe, Behave model.
Andrew Thompson
WellSpring Community Church
Acton Youth's Chance for Change: Youth engagement in a rural and under-serviced environment
Successes and lessons learned from the planning and implementation of a youth-led community engagement event in a rural community.
Karen J Rockwell, Sylvia Dawe, Alison Hilborn
Halton Region Health Department
An evaluation of an asset based Comprehensive Youth Pilot Project in Toronto
Results of an evaluation of the Comprehensive Youth Pilot Project delivered in partnership with two school boards in Toronto.
Brenda Juby, Robert Coughlin
Toronto Public Health
Session 3d
Accountability/Governance/Performance management
Appreciative inquiry: A research methodology for building Public Health system capacity
Using Appreciative Inquiry, focus groups of PHNs and Policy makers across Canada identified the attributes of Public Health organizations that best support their work.
Jane M Underwood, Anne Ehrlich, Jennifer Blythe, Mary Crea
McMaster University
Kristin Knibbs Bonnie Schoenfeld, Mary MacDonald
University of Saskatchewan
Donna Meagher- Stewart,
Dalhousie University
Val Munroe
Vancouver Coastal Health
Melanie Lavoie- Tremblay
McGill University
Tools to support the proposed OPHS for research and knowledge exchange: Three community experiences
Meeting expectations for evidence-informed practice: 3 Ontario Public Health Units apply the TEIP Program Evidence Protocol.
Dayna R Albert, Lisa Gallant, Karen Reading, Iva McCausland, Lana Smith
Ontario Pubic Health Association
Priority setting – Foundational principles
Applying the foundational principles of need, impact, capacity, and partnership/collaboration to identify priorities and determine resource allocation.
Christina Bradley, Deborah Moore
Niagara Region Public Health
Making the case for participatory & systematic decision making processes
A case study will describe a systematic decision making process for the assessment of Well Baby/Child and Breastfeeding Clinics.
Melissa A McCann, Bonnie Wooten, Shelley Hlymbicky
Middlesex-London Health Unit
Session 3e
Environment/Climate Change
Turn it Off! A community based anti-idling campaign
Turn it Off! is campaign that included social marketing, policy development and evaluation of intervention effectiveness.
Marina Whelan, Brenda Armstrong
Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit
walkON
A review of a menu of choices developed for walkON to affect changes to the built environment to support walking. The presenter will also highlight early findings from a provincial in-depth evaluation.
Lisa J Gallant,
Niagara Region Public Health
New Routes to School: supporting the transition from bussing to walking
This paper describes a project undertaken to address a hazard bussing situation affecting two schools in our community.
Jill Ritchie,
Peterborough County-City Health Unit
Children’s Environmental Health project in Thunder Bay
Children's Environmental Health project included development of a logic model to assist with implementing various community initiatives.
Lyne R Soramaki, Kim McGibbon
Thunder Bay District Health Unit
Session 3f
Youth Engagement
Mental health, delinquency and criminal activity: Factors preventing youth from engaging in delinquency
This presentation will review what mental health-related factors are linked to delinquency among youth, in either a protective or risk capacity.
Elizabeth A Votta,
Canadian Institute for Health Information
Youth engaging in mental health
This interactive presentation done in partnership with youth, will explore how young people are engaging in mental health promotion and advocacy.
Catherine Dyer, Sarah Brandon
The New Mentality
Empowering student voices for positive change
Iroquois Ridge High School presents this interactive multimedia presentation to design and create a school environment that fosters student leadership. Participants will leave inspired, informed and with an action plan to empower their own students to make a difference.
Jacqueline A Newton, Mary Tabak, Sue Graham, Tracey Forde,
Marie Guest, Joanne Eliuk
Halton District School Board
“Check Em” Testicular Cancer campaign
The “Check ‘Em” campaign provides simple, clear, and useful information to teenagers about Testicular Cancer and Testicular Self Exam.
Carol Millar, Meghan Arbour, Cheryl Fried
Region of Waterloo Public Health
Session 3g
Environment/Climate Change
Urban Planning, Geography, and Diabetes
This presentation will address the residential neighbourhood as a key determinant of health. Neighbourhood diabetes rates will be discussed in the context of poverty, ethnicity, access to healthy resources and activity friendliness.
Dr. Richard Glazier,
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Concurrent Session IV
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Session 4a
Accountability/Governance/Performance management
iEngage: Building Public Health capacity to engage the community
We will walk through the development of a community engagement framework to support public health staff in Waterloo Region.
Annette Collins, Grace Bermingham
Region of Waterloo Public Health
Factors that influence students’ decisions surrounding Human Papillomavirus vaccination HPV in York Region
Collecting primary data from youth for program evaluation to support and enhance the impact of a new school-based vaccination program.
Ruth E Diaz-Chambers
York Region Health Services
Skills enhancement for Public Health practitioners: An online professional education module to increase information management capacity
Description of the development of an online module by the OPHLA for PHAC to empower public health professionals to become efficient information users.
Elena Goldblatt, Maria Aulicino, Gayle Jessop, Heather Kemp,
Allison McArthur, Barb Murray, Beata Pach
Public Health Services, City of Hamilton
Alcohol Policy forums: Provincial to local action
The goal of this presentation is to highlight the learning’s and outcomes from the five annual Alcohol: No Ordinary Commodity Forums presented by the Alcohol Policy Network and partners. The learning’s presented will include how the Alcohol Policy Network and other stakeholders turned leading national and provincial theory and movements into practical community responses.
Ben Rempel
Ontario Public Health Association
Session 4b
Youth Engagement
Engaging youth in sexual health programming: A Central West perspective
This presentation discusses initiatives undertaken in Central West Region that have addressed youth engagement in Sexual Health/AIDS/STI programming.
Cate Bannan, Linda Blake-Evans, Alan Spencer, Karen Verhoeve
Halton Region Health Department
How to get teens to listen and be engaged
OSAID, Ontario Students Against Impaired Driving has been around for over 20 years. Many similar groups have tried and failed, why?
Matt J Evans
Ontario Students Against Impaired Driving
Proactive why vs. reactive why
Youth driven dialogue as a method to develop problem solving skills, risk management, and self-worth.
Andrew J Thompson
WellSpring Community Church
Session 4c
Accountability/Governance/Performance management
There’s TB surveillance standards and then there’s everyday practice
This paper outlines a doctoral phenomenological research study that examined the relationship work of TB nurses.
Amy C Bender
University of Toronto
The path to more effective and efficient outbreak response
Through a systematic debrief of CD outbreaks and development of an OB response plan Toronto Public Health is continually improving its OB response.
Karen Beckermann, Marjolyn Pritchard, Michael Finkelstein, Barbara Yaffe
Toronto Public Health
Cultivating knowledge, building capacity and maximizing impact: Closing the gap between research, practice and policy
A transdisciplinary model to foster research utilization within the realities of the diverse circumstances of public health services.
Coleen J Flynn, Gloria Morris
Niagara Region Public Health
Assessing Sexual Health Clinic Capacity
This presentation will discuss a Sexual Health Clinic Capacity Review project which assessed community need related priority populations.
Cate Bannan, Joanna Oliver
Halton Region Health Department
Session 4d
Community Capacity
Advocating, developing and implementing alcohol and other drug policies: What have we learned in Ontario
This presentation will examine key elements to a successful alcohol/drug policy and identify challenges that may be faced from a public health perspective.
Reggie Caverson, Susan Shepherd, Denise DePape
Centre for Addiction & Mental Health
Well trained and networked youth workers get real results for youth:
The Medical Foundation partnered with the South End/Lower Roxbury youth Workers Alliance and Brandies University's Center for Youth and Communities to implement the set of studies that informed this project.
Mo Barbosa, Laurie Jo Wallace
The Medical Foundation
Building community capacity through partnerships – Lessons learned from OHHP – Taking action for healthy living
Best Practice research and lessons learned around sustaining partnerships. Case studies will focus on youth engagement, poverty, and the environment.
Lisa Gallant,
Niagara Region Public Health
Tanya Rumble,
Halton Region Health Department
Operation Safe, Strong and Clean
A project to initiate collaboration and develop protocols for interjecting public health knowledge into municipal planning and decision making.
Jennifer Croft
Grey Bruce Health Unit
Session 4e
Poverty/Health inequalities
Learning from the South: Microfinancing for HIV Positive Women in Ontario
The fundamental aim of the Learning from the South: Microfinancing for HIV-Positive Women in Ontario project is to address these barriers by providing HIV-positive women with the tools necessary for self-empowerment that will ultimately lead to improvements in their quality of life.
Jason Globerman,
The Ontario HIV Treatment Network
Evaluation of The New Mentality project: Determining challenges and successes and the impact of youth engagement on youth, adults and organizations
This presentation describes preliminary findings from a mixed methods evaluation of The New Mentality pilot project.
Heather L Ramey, Alison Baxter
Brock University
Be A Great Parent promoting positive parenting in Niagara
This campaign focuses on establishing effective communication patterns and developing supportive relationships with children and providing guidance.
Angela Alfieri-Maiolo
Niagara Region Public Health
Session 4f
Community Capacity & Accountability/Governance/Performance management
Safe to play
Addressing parental concerns about safe public play areas can affect children's free play experience; reduce indoor activity and curb obesity.
Louise A Edmonds
University of Ottawa-Algonquin College
Outreach strategy to family physicians & obstetricians
This presentation will demonstrate a meaningful way to build & strengthen interrelationships between public health, family physicians and obstetricians.
Bonnie Wooten
Middlesex-London Health Unit
Transition to Public Health nursing: Developing a “Foundations of Practice” module within a generic orientation program for Public Health nurses
The "Foundations of Practice” is one of three modules that introduces new nurses to factors shaping public health nursing practice.
Cyndy Johnston
Public Health Services, City of Hamilton
Betsy Partington
Niagara Region Public Health
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Concurrent Session V
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Session 5a
Concurrent keynotes: Climate change/Global warming
The implications of climate change are highly significant for Public Health. We can expect changing patterns in diseases caused by bacteria, viruses and other pathogens carried by mosquitoes, ticks and other vectors. Predicted impacts also include increases in the rates of asthma and other respiratory diseases as well as skin cancer. Disturbances to immune function are predicted. Rising sea levels will cause extensive flooding in citrus fruit growing areas, resulting in higher prices and shortages. As always, the most vulnerable in society are the most threatened and demand on our services will increase.
This session will examine the extent of the problem and provide examples of initiatives which can be implemented by public health units.
Dave Phillips
Senior Climatologist, Environment Canada
Jeff Beyer
Development Worker, Engineers Without Borders Canada
Kathleen Carter
Manager, Strategic Policy Branch, Ministry of the Environment
Session 5b
Concurrent panel: Fostering community success: Making a difference through our connections and questions
Public Health is consistently challenged with addressing local needs with constrained resources. As a result, practitioners seek social innovation to mobilize the community towards sustainable change. Fostering successful community development is conceptually complex. In spite of the complexities, there are practical approaches which can make a difference. This panel will engage and challenge participants to examine variables which impact community success. Panellists will examine frameworks and share their own case studies. We will explore the significance of establishing relationships, changing the types of questions we ask and other practical applications for practitioners.
Dr. Brenda Zimmerman
Schulich School of Business, York University
Dr. Charles Gardner
MOH, SMDHU, Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit
Rev. Marc Brulé
WellSpring Community Church, Welland
Stephen Butz
CEO, YMCA of Niagara
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Concurrent Session VI
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon
Session 6a
Community Capacity
Evaluation results of the Northern Fruit & Vegetable pilot program – A partnership of local and provincial stakeholders
Evaluation results of a government fruit & vegetable program implemented and evaluated by a partnership of local and provincial stakeholders.
Charlene Beynon, Meizi He, Michelle Sangster Bouck, Renee St Onge, Susan Stewart, Linda Khoshaba, Betty Ann Horbul, Bill Chircoski
Middlesex-London Health Unit
Food choices available in municipally-run recreation facilities and arenas in Middlesex-London
This needs assessment will determine the feasibility of establishing a nutrition policy in municipally-run recreation facilities and arenas.
Heather M. Thomas
Middlesex-London Health Unit
Menu planning at childcare facilities: A toolkit for childcare providers
This project highlights the need, impact, capacity, collaboration and partnerships to develop a menu planning toolkit for childcare facilities.
Stephanie Leavitt, Beth MacEachern
Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit
Session 6b
Environment/Climate Change
Exploring vulnerabilities of climate change impacts
With the rising health impacts of climate change as a result of our failed attempts at reducing carbon causing global warming more needs to be done to put in place strategies to reduce harm especially for the most vulnerable. This presentation will attempt to open debate on the future direction of adaptation in public health to redirect strategies with vulnerable populations in mind.
Mark R Pajot
Peel Health / York University
Using the Rapid Inquiry Facility (RIF) to aid in implementation of the identification, investigation and management of health hazards protocol
Rapid Inquiry Facility (RIF), lung cancer risk, industrial pollution, urban Ontario, risk assessment.
Susitha Wanigaratne
Cancer Care Ontario
Improving air quality during time of growth
Halton Health is using air shed modelling and portable air monitoring as tools to support its work to improve air quality through the planning process.
Kim Perrotta
Halton Region Health Department
Session 6c
Youth Engagement
Youth engagement 101
When young people are in charge of a project, how do you get out of the way and let them do it?
Mike DesJardins
YMCA of Hamilton/Burlington
A strategy for engaging youth in building healthier communities
Our experience in implementing a strategy to engage youth in the process of building healthier, stronger, youth-friendly communities.
Linda M Davies, Kristi Waram
Grey Bruce Health Unit
Youth-led civic engagement in Northern Ontario
The Community Youth Coalition has made significant progress towards a youth civic strategy using multiple approaches that increase community capacity.
Sheila Hansen
Thunder Bay District Health Unit
Session 6d
Community Capacity, Accountability/Governance/Performance management & Poverty/Health Inequalities
Enhancing our ability to provide Public Health programs through a health equity lens
This session will describe the Sudbury & District Health Unit’s process of mapping our programs utilizing a health equity lens.
Claire Warren, Isabelle Michel
Sudbury & District Health Unit
Rallying the health sector to alleviate the health impacts of poverty in the Sudbury area
This session will describe the Sudbury & District Health Unit’s process of engaging the health sector in addressing health inequities.
Claire Warren, Isabelle Michel
Sudbury & District Health Unit
Taking action on the social determinants of chronic disease
This interactive workshop will showcase Primer to Action, a bilingual, web resource for practitioners to understand and take action on the SDOH.
Subha Sankaran, Suzanne Schwenger
Health Nexus
Session 6e
Youth Engagement and Accountability/Governance/Performance management
Table Talk: A model for developing programs/services for at-risk youth, the Peel Region experience
An overview of the development, implementation and barriers to success for the Table Talk program for homeless and at-risk youth will be presented.
Rhonda Collis, Danny Bilan
Peel Health
Building on rural youth assets to develop and maintain a health promotion website
The Spark project engaged local youth through a participatory approach to create a health promotion website for youth by youth.
Lyndsay Snowe, Sherri Bezaire
Huron County Health Unit
A program evaluation of 4 for Lunch: A Healthy Lunch Challenge—A school-based program promoting healthy lunches among Grade 3 students
The 4 for Lunch program was evaluated to determine its effectiveness at increasing students’ knowledge and behaviour and teachers’ confidence.
Shanna Hoetmer, Scott Cholewa, Lucy Valleau
York Region Health Services
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